[python-committers] Python 2.6.6 rc 1 planned for today

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi folks, Don't forget that I am planning to cut Python 2.6.6 rc 1 later today (probably starting at around 2200 UTC). We have a number of release blockers currently reported: http://bugs.python.org/iss...@columns=title,id,activity,versions,assignee&@sort=activity&@group=priority&@filter=priorit

[python-committers] python-checkins Reply-To now set for python-dev

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
Over in #python-dev, Georg reminded us of a change to the python-checkins mailing list that was discussed a few weeks ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101853.html Despite the mild preference of redirecting python-checkins to python-committers, I noticed that the list

[python-committers] Postponing 2.6.6rc1

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
For several reasons, I'm postponing 2.6.6rc1 for one day. Ezio has been doing a lot of great work on the test suite, but there are still a few things to fix. On top of that, bugs.python.org crashed and we're waiting for our hosting company to wake up and reboot it. We'll try again, same time tom